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In chapter two, Lockman writes that the era of the Crusades was finally over by the end of the nineteenth century and there was little interested energy in the midst of the Western European Christians for any more campaigns to regain the Holy Land. The various developments made the Latin Christians to hope that the Mongols were sent by God in order to destroy Islam, and thus efforts were made to secure an alliance with them. As a result of the failure of the last Crusades and the loss of hope placed in the Mongols enabled a good portion of the educated Christians in the West to come to terms that it was unlikely that Islam be destroyed with military

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